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[Dovecot] Urgent problem with deleting emails and maildirsize
by Jose Luis Marin Perez 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

Dears Sirs, I hope they can help me with this problem since it is urgent. I've completed the migration from Courier to Dovecot that has been running correctly, the only problem is that maildirsize file is not updated when you delete the emails, resulting in accounts that reach to 100% faster, so I have to manually delete this file. Through Dovecot can be configured to automatically update when maildirsize delete emails? Thanks Jose Luis _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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[Dovecot] unsu
by pj2002＠inbox.lv 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

-- Tavs bezmaksas pasts Inbox.lv

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[Dovecot] How to rebuild index?
by Max Ivanov 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

I've deleted some mails using my handmade tool, it deletes some files in "cur" subdir, but deleted messages are still appear in thunderbird. I believe that's because of stale index file. Is it safe to delete dovect.index? Or what else should I delete/modify to make TB view in sync with real state of filesystem?

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[Dovecot] mbox sync failure
by Alnis Morics 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi, Yesterday I had to reboot my server machine and I think there was an email client connected from the LAN during the reboot which I did not notice then. Now that mailbox is no longer accessible: as soon as I try to connect, it lets me wait forever while openin the folder, and cycles endlessly this message in the logs: Jul 2 19:40:37 myhostname dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<username>, method=PLAIN, rip=#.#.#.#, lip=#.#.#.#, TLS Jul 2 19:40:37 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): unlink(/var/mail/username.lock) failed: Permission denied Jul 2 19:40:48 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): file mbox-sync.c: line 1372 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion failed: (trailer_size <= 2) Jul 2 19:40:48 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80b2081] -> imap [0x80b1f99] -> imap [0x807a536] -> imap [0x807ae71] -> imap(mbox_sync+0x422) [0x807d3c2] -> imap(mbox_storage_sync_init+0x3e) [0x807d8de] -> imap(imap_sync_nonselected+0x1c) [0x806446c] -> imap(_cmd_select_full+0xc3) [0x805be83] -> imap(cmd_select+0x19) [0x805c059] -> imap [0x805d5ef] -> imap [0x805d690] -> imap(_client_input +0x74) [0x805dd64] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xf0) [0x80b7e20] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x80b7338] -> imap(main+0x478) [0x8066388] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7e36455] -> imap [0x8058561] Jul 2 19:40:48 myhostname dovecot: child 2459 (imap) killed with signal 6 (I have Debian Lenny with dovecot 1.0.15.) I tried to add the user dovecot to the group mail and give the group mail write permission to the mailbox. The permission errors stopped appearing but everything else is still there, including .lock file and 3 imap-login processes that resume as soon as I try to kill them. There are also 2 unimportant mailboxes that still work. I can view the beginning of the "username" mailbox with mc inner viewer, but it hangs as I go to the end of file. Tried to copy the file so I could freely experiment with it but the copying hung up when it reached 87 % (the file is 1.1 GB). The copied part was unreadable. Tried to formail -ds < /var/mail/username >> /backup/usernameJul3 but with the same result. Is there a way to repair the synchronization of the mbox? Or at least a way to recover its content?

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[Dovecot] 64 bit vs 32 Bit
by Mario Antonio Garcia 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Do you think that there is a substantial performance gain by running Dovecot in a 64 bit Architecture? Regards, Mario Antonio

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Support Added to OSSEC
by Michael Starks 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

I have added (beta) Dovecot support for the OSSEC HIDs. It will detect certain attacks and error conditions, and optionally block the attacker (similar to fail2ban). Rather than re-hash the details here, I refer you to the OSSEC mailing list for details on how to install. I would appreciate any feedback either here, there, or privately. The idea is to get a few people trying it so I thought a post here would be good, too.

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[Dovecot] Problem no update maildirsize
by Jose Luis Marin Perez 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dears Sirs, I've noticed that since the Courier to Dovecot migration have had few problems with the %usage of email accounts as they do not reflect the real use, to fix this I have to manually delete the file maildirsize and run the command vuserinfo user(a)domain.com, depending on your experience may be the cause of this problem? thanks Jose Luis _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

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[Dovecot] about Update Road and no IDLE in CAPABILITY
by kfx 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hi list, I'm in the path of moving from courier-imap to dovecot and testing it since 1.2-rc3. So far it is very promising. Thank you for your amazing work. So my first question is: what is the recommended update road ? For now, I first "managesieve patch"/compile the source, go on to the old source folder and do a "make uninstall", switch back to the new source folder and do the "make install". As I am using dovecot-sieve and managesieve, the update is a little bit tricky. My second question is how to have the IDLE mode to appear in the server's CAPABILITY announce (without touching imap_capability in the conf ?) I think the IDLE mode is working because when I send me a mail from the server directly in command line like: " echo test | mail -s test my(a)address.com" The mail immediately pop-up in my thunderbird from my workstation. # !tel telnet 127.0.0.1 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] My Message ------- No IDLE. Details: - Centos 5.3 x86_64 (Selinux in permissive mode) - /proc/sys/fs/inotify/ exist - # rpm -qa | grep gamin gamin-0.1.7-8.el5 gamin-0.1.7-8.el5 gamin-devel-0.1.7-8.el5 gamin-devel-0.1.7-8.el5 - Dovecote 1.2.0 Compilation: $ ./configure --with-ldap=yes --with-notify=inotify Install prefix . : /usr/local File offsets ... : 64bit I/O polling .... : epoll I/O notifys .... : inotify SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL) GSSAPI ......... : no passdbs ........ : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword ldap : -pam -bsdauth -sia -sql -vpopmail userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword ldap nss : -sql -vpopmail SQL drivers .... : : -pgsql -mysql -sqlite - # dovecot --version 1.2.0 - # dovecot -n # 1.2.0: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot-error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-debug.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve ssl_ca_file: /etc/pki/CA/chaine.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/server.key login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: My Message verbose_proctitle: yes mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(pop3): quota expire mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): auth default: username_format: %Ln verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: *:storage=10GB quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% expire: Trash 1 Trash/* 1 expire_dict: proxy::expire sieve_dir: /var/sieve-upload/ sieve: /var/sieve-scripts/%u.sieve dict: expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db Thank you, kfx

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[Dovecot] dovecot start up messages
by Xueron Nee 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hi, Why dovecot prints these messages when start up? And how to suppress it? # /home/mail/init/dovecot.init restart Stopping Dovecot: [ OK ] ILoading modules from directory: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_convert_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so IModule loaded: /home/mail/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so IEffective uid=99, gid=99, home=/tmp IQuota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::quota_dict Startting Dovecot: [ OK ] Thanks :) -- Xueron Nee http://www.xueron.com

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[Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance
by Mario Antonio Garcia 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

From a performance perspective: Which Directory layout is better: 1. All mailboxes are stored in a single directory and prefixed with a dot or 2. Maildirs using physical directories, such as: Maildir/folder/subfolder/ It looks like the second option -- File Sytem Layout (LAYOUT=fs) -- could spread the load in a better way ...... I do not expect a user reaching maximum number of subfolders in linux , but what about those heavy users with a lot of sub-folders: Is there a significant performance gain by choosing a specific Directory Layout ... Any Comments? Regards, Mario Antonio

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